Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

Leadership Grant Grant

Campaigns Director at the Center for Food Safety, Year 2

To provide a second year of funding for Lisa Bunin’s role as Campaigns Director at the Center for Food Safety (CFS) where she develops, directs, implements and evaluates all CFS programs and campaigns to be sure they are appropriately...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Fisheries Research in El Ocote National Forest, Mexico

To provide funds for Rebecca Quinones to allocate a portion of her time to work with the El Ocote National Forest in Mexico on fisheries research, and ultimately to provide leadership on preparing a restoration strategy for native fish...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Participatory Action Research Director

To hire Chris Bacon as full-time Participatory Action Research Director, to continue his prior years of academic work on small-scale coffee farmer livelihood improvements and biodiversity conservation measures with shade coffee production...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Campaigns Director at the Center for Food Safety, Year 1

The Center for Food Safety hired Lisa Bunin as the organization’s first Campaigns Director, working out of the organization’s San Francisco office. CFS has grown in recent years and while it has deep legal, outreach, research and advocacy...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

James Liebman

1990 Fellow
James Liebman was a Biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--Region 9 in San Francisco. He worked with the Agriculture Program on non-regulatory projects that promote and support broader implementation of sustainable...
Fellow

Daniel Mountjoy

1990 Fellow
Daniel is currently responsible for the management of three program areas at Sustainable Conservation: (1) Development of Statewide Programmatic Permitting for small scale restoration projects, (2) testing and evaluation of Ecosystem...
Fellow

John Steggall

1990 Fellow
John Steggall works for the California Dept. of Food & Agriculture where he analyzes impacts of pesticide regulatory decisions, pesticide alternatives, and trends in pest management. This work is done in conjunction with University of...
Fellow

Christine Gardiner

1994 Fellow
Christine and her husband John Gardiner run a small watershed consulting service called WaterCycle Inc. They've provided watershed assessments, stormwater planning and urban/ habitat enhancement since 2000. They combine John's civil...
Fellow

Peggy Sloan

1990 Fellow
Peggy was director of planning and development for the Franklin County Commissioners, where she provided technical assistance to 26 townships in western Massachusetts.
Fellow

Susan Lund

1993 Fellow
Susan worked as an agroforestry volunteer for the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Her present research focuses on the strategies that poor farmers in the Philippines uplands use to cope with the income fluctuations inherent to agriculture...